People of Lemmy that take more than 5 seconds to start your car and drive, what are you doing?

jsheradin, 7 months ago

• Get in
• Start car
• Connect up bluetooth for tunes
• Wait for startup high-idle to finish warming the cats or whatever
• Drive

pastermil, 7 months ago

How about making sure I don’t hit anything on my way out?

pixeltree, 7 months ago

Waiting for my old phone to get ready to navigate and play music

BellaDonna, 7 months ago

Setting up music, navigation, and letting it defrost

vivavideri, 7 months ago

Leaning in, starting the car, hitting the garage door button, putting stuff in, grabbing ice scraper, begrudgingly pondering why I had to get another car that’s currently in the garage, parked where if my running one was it would not need scraping.

JusticeForPorygon, 7 months ago

My mother will sit in the car and watch at least three tiktoks before starting the car and before getting out .

calypsopub, 7 months ago

Starting Spotify and syncing it with Android Auto

NikkiNikkiNikki, 7 months ago

Transmission is slow on startup (especially when cold) so the first shift always takes a while to engage, and I have to watch the lights to see if I still have enough coolant (fun leak)

Annoyed_Crabby, 7 months ago

Some people claimed that one of those stop-leak/stop-slip transmission treatment will help, maybe you should give it a try.

NikkiNikkiNikki, 7 months ago

I did, this buddy is too far gone, 3rd gear practically doesn't exist

smorks, 7 months ago

if it’s winter and really cold I’ll let the car run for a bit before going. also have to clear ice/snow off the car sometimes too.

AgentGrimstone, 7 months ago

Loading up my favorite podcast

CaptainBasculin, 7 months ago

Not often this is the case, but when it is; it’s always “fuck my seatbelt got stuck, let me pull it slowly”

habanhero, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Responding to this post, can’t comment and drive

FaceDeer, 7 months ago

Reflecting on how ironic it would be for a deer to crash a car into a human crossing the road for a change.

XBannedx, 7 months ago

Checking pbone, eating food, looking for cord, checking pockets, enjoying the view, making sure mirrors are adjusted properly, adjusting chair, adjusting steering wheel. Could be any number of things.

Pulptastic, 7 months ago

Depends. I drive a hybrid and live on top of a hill so my routine is set up to try and keep the engine off until I hit flat land and go above 30 mph. Typically that means plug in and set up my phone, buckle in, turn car in, and slowly cruise out of there with no delay. I don’t really want the engine warming up until it actually needs to run.